Business & Economy The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets (Bloomberg) There’s a multitrillion-dollar black hole growing at the heart of the world’s financial markets. Negative-yielding debt -- bonds worth less, not more, if held to maturity -- is spreading to more
Business & Economy Routing Fee Economics in the Lightning Network (BitMEX) BitMEX Research examines the market dynamics of Lightning network routing fees and the financial incentives for Lightning node operators to provide liquidity. We identify the interrelationship and balance between Lightning routing fees and
Business & Economy Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them? Popular though they may be, lotteries, with their billion-dollar jackpots, come uncomfortably close to being taxes on those who can least afford them. Millions of lower-income people funnel a disproportionately large amount of
Advertising Why It’s OK to Block Ads (James Williams, 2015) (...) Arguments against ad blocking tend to focus on the potential economic harms. Because advertising is the dominant business model on the internet, if everyone used ad-blocking software then wouldn’t it all collapse?
Business & Economy Elinor Ostrom: Fighting the Tragedy of the Commons Among the recipients of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was Elinor Ostrom, for her analysis of economic governance, especially in relation to the commons. While this choice took many in the
Business & Economy Blendle: Journalism needs a Spotify, a Netflix, an iTunes — whatever you want to call it Music has Spotify. Video has Netflix. But journalism still didn’t have its own dedicated platform.As a former technology journalist myself, I thought that the lack of such a platform for journalism
Business & Economy Crypto-monnaies et concurrence des monnaies Solide article de vulgarisation sur les crypto-monnaies par Étienne Perrot pour la revue Études. Ci-dessous, le dernier paragraphe qui évoque le concept de concurrence entre monnaies privées développé par l'économiste Friedrich Hayek.Tous
Business & Economy Smart companies try to commoditize their product's complements (Joel Spolsky) If you can do this, demand for your product will increase and you will be able to charge more and make more.When IBM designed the PC architecture, they used off-the-shelf parts instead
Business & Economy Adidas vend ses nouvelles chaussures sans magasin ni site Web (Les Échos) Seuls les possesseurs d’un code récupéré auprès d’une communauté d’« influenceurs » pourront se procurer les chaussures de football Glitch, personnalisables selon les besoins.C'est une chaussure de football d'Adidas qui ne
Business & Economy How Brendan Eich plans to flip the online ad model and fix the web (Digiday) Brendan Eich knows how the web works — and how to fix it.The inventor of JavaScript while at Netscape is now occupied with growing a new browser, Brave, which promises to be far
Business & Economy Why don't more open-source projects monetize? (Ask HN) Because monetizing your open-source project means you take on a second job.Here are your choices:Turn your OSS project into a company (Docker). The pro is that you can capture a lot
